Fwd: [cryptography] The Compromised Internet

[The Doctor]

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On 09/26/2013 04:15 AM, coderman wrote:

> mesh is much more robust in every aspect... presuming you can
> scale (there's always a catch...)

There are ways to make it more scalable but I don't think perfectly
so.  The question is, are 21st century people more willing to use a
"send it and it'll get there" method ala the Net as it is now, or a
"post it and we'll get it there if we have to teach carrier pigeons to
use a tarot deck and a vuvuzula, though it might take a while" method
(in other words, FidoNET-like).  The latter gets the job done but
whether or not people are willing to be patient in light of that kind
of latency is a different question entirely.

For what it's worth, Byzantium's working on a store-and-forward-like
architecture (mobile clients to sort-of stationary mesh nodes with
semi-persistent storage) for all of its apps (not just the microblog -
thanks again, Richo!).  As for the forward bit, we're working on a
sufficiently generic implementation of the latter technique (which
could use everything from amateur radio (as problematic as that might
be) to sneakernet) to eventually synchronize all reachable nodes' content.

Ways and means.

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